Designer

About the role

We’re building our in-house creative team. We’re looking for an exceptional designer to join our Creative Team - with innate curiosity, a passion for design, and a strong aesthetic across print and digital.

Sitting within the broader Marketing department, the Creative team act as custodian of our brand and visual identity. And as go-to creative experts, fulfilling a range of fast paced print and digital briefs across supporter marketing, social channels, and corporate comms, as well as offering creative advice and training to other departments.

This role sits within the Creative team, reporting to the Creative Manager. Through this role we want to:

• Grow our in-house creative team

• Deliver on more creative briefs

• That support our fundraising and marketing objectives

• Embed design excellence

• Drive digital storytelling, exploring ways to create richer, online experiences

• Demonstrate the power of good design to solve communication problems

• Make it easier for non-design experts to use our visual identity

• Achieve more consistency in how our visual identity is used.

You will deliver great design, production and artwork for the organisation, working in collaboration with other colleagues and teams to support print and digital campaigns and activities.

Work in partnership with copywriters and other creative colleagues to take internal briefs, advise on the best strategies to deliver results, and develop creative concepts

Work across supporter fundraising appeals and communications, corporate communication, and social channels

Continually looking for new ideas and innovation to champion creativity and promote our organisational visual identity.

Develop templates and training that support non creative colleagues to implement our visual identity consistently and accurately.

About you

• You will need to demonstrate excellent all round design skills, and a strong portfolio across print and digital

• Be highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud software, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Premier Pro

• Be able to interpret a creative brief, generate innovative ideas, and clearly pitch and communicate them

• Be adaptable and flexible to work with other creatives, and a broad range of stakeholders

• Be able to manage a busy and varied workload, and meet deadlines

• Hold a relevant, higher level design qualification.

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Our modern, open plan offices are located in the centre of Rugby and near to Rugby train station but we also offer free parking.

In addition, we offer the following benefits:

• Full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week.

• Some evening and weekend work may be required on an ad hoc basis, including attending events as a Practical Action representative.

• Flexible working hours are encouraged and enabled – depending on the role, remote working is possible.

• 26 days holiday rising with continuous service, in addition to public holidays.

• Pension scheme - employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.

• Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave.

• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).

• Bike to Work scheme.

About us

We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Additional information

• Please note that should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.

• We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

• Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing

• The successful applicant must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in the UK.